Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Laurie gravestone in the Kirkyard cemetery in Dalserf, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Text on this headstone includes: Robert Laurie’s body lies here, who witness for the truth did bear. For Scotland’s Covenanted Cause, of Reformation and Scripture’s laws. Most zealously he did contend, until his days came to an end.
The early name recordings include: Coilbert Lowrie of Coldinham in 1497; David Lowry, a kings officer, of Edinburgh in 1529; James Lowrey, appointed a burgess and freeman of the City of Glasgow in 1600, whilst Gavin Laurie was an early governor of the colony of New Jersey, America, in 1757.
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